A zookeeper shows off an American burying beetle at the St. Louis Zoo. Their staff is working to conserve this threatened species. American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them ...

A Clemson entomologist took a year off from teaching and came back with a discovery so enormous it rewrote what scientists ...

Some animals carry chemical weapons that humans have spent decades trying to replicate without success. From beetles that fire scalding explosions to frogs that survive being frozen solid, these ...

With more than 350,000 described species, and many more still waiting to be discovered, beetles are among the most diverse and resilient creatures on Earth, thriving in nearly every environment from ...

One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...

Most people assume that by now, scientists have discovered nearly every animal living on Earth. After all, satellites can map ...

Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new collaborative study by ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

WORCESTER — Research being conducted in the city by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service could potentially eradicate the Asian longhorned beetle, an invasive ...